Transport secretary GrantShapps has told Sky News that PPE is now 'flowing' into care homes for residents and workers. Read more about the UK's coronavirus outbreak:
"R" is shorthand for reproductive rate and is a measure of how many people, on average, will catch the virus from someone who is infected.
Answering questions later in the briefing, Mr Gove said he suspected the public would have to live with"some degree of constraint" until a vaccine is developed. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will set out a"road map" for easing the lockdown later this week.Mr Gove also confirmed that Britain would trial a new coronavirus tracking programme next week on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, in a bid to minimise the risk of a second wave of the infection.
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